From the Archives 2
Since my decision to publish some of the older, and unseen, stories that I investigated back in the UK a decade or so ago provoked some interesting replies, I figured I would continue in this vein.
And so, here’s this week’s “From the Archives” (and as with my first “From the Archives” this one is extracted directly from my original Word file prepared - in this case - in 1999):
In late September 1963, a UFO incident took place at Peterborough, England that involved both civilian and military witnesses. The facts were set forth in a two-page Restricted report from Sergeant T.G.M. Kendall at RAF Wittering Northants., who graphically relayed to the Air Ministry what took place; and since this particular report is of some significance, I reproduce its contents in total:
Sir,
I have the honour to report the following facts for your consideration. I was NCO in charge [of the] Operations Room at 2240 hours on 26th September, 1963 when I received a telephone call from Mr. STRICKSON of [witness’s address] who, in company with Mr. QUANTRELL of the same address, saw what he considered to be two unidentified flying objects.
The objects were in view in the first instance from 2000-2100 hours. During that time two orange coloured balls of light travelled from the South to the East in a zig-zag fashion, then were seen again moving from West to East. They were then seen to orbit overhead for some ten minutes during which time three or four objects left the two first mentioned and then rejoined them. Mr. Strickson was not able to estimate the range or the altitude of the sightings, but considered them to be “higher than an aeroplane but lower than a star”.
I received a further call from Mr. Strickson at 2250 hours reporting two objects blue in colour, higher than the previous sighting, and travelling very quickly. At 2320 hours Mr. Strickson informed me of two sightings which had taken place at 2305 hours when two objects were seen to move west to east in close formation one behind the other, the one in front being appreciably brighter than the one behind.
At 2330, 2340 and 2350 hours, I received calls from S.A.C.W. [Author’s Note: Senior Aircraftswoman] Marshall, the Duty PBX Operator, who had seen a bright orange light moving north to south which had turned south in the first instance and subsequently orbited overhead. At one time she thought that she had heard engines but was not sure.
As a result of these calls, I joined S.A.C.W. Marshall outside the PBX building and saw at 0010 and 0020 hours two orange lights approx. 30 seconds apart which appeared from W.S.W. at a constant altitude heading approx. 100 degrees, flying what I considered to be a left hand race track pattern.
I lost sight of the objects as they described a descending left hand turn onto the reciprocal of the visible leg. The sightings were exactly 10 minutes apart and speed, direction and altitude appeared to be constant.
Flying Officer Gastrell was Duty Operations Officer when these sightings were reported. On his instructions I informed the Duty Operations Officer No.3 Group of the various reports. He in turn contacted the Duty Operations Officer at Air Ministry. The Duty Operations Officer at Air Ministry required a full report to be submitted to Air Ministry D.D.I. Tech [Author’s Note: Deputy Directorate of Intelligence, Technical] giving full particulars of all witnesses. A Met. Report giving the conditions at two specimen times during the period of sightings is attached to this report. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, T.G.M. Kendall, Sergeant.
For its part, the Air Ministry quickly came up with a solution. All of the witnesses (including trained military observers) were informed that they had been fooled by an air-to-air refuelling operation. However, an examination of the internal files pertaining to the case show that, in reality, this was simply the Ministry’s best guess, as no such refuelling operation was ever officially confirmed as having taken place.
(National Archive File Number: AIR 2/17318)
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 at 8:20 am and is filed under Alien Encounters, Breaking News, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Government Projects, The Redfern Files, UFO Sightings, UFOlogy. You can follow responses via RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is not allowed.
del.icio.us Digg Reddit BlinkList Google Ma.gnolia StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Help
- Related News Stories:
- UFOs and Unit 731 »
- UFO Archives »
- UFO Drones Return »
- From the UFO Archives (Part 4) »
- The Kecksburg UFO »
- From The UFO Archives 3 »
- UFO Archives »
- Another From The Archives »
- From the UFO Archives… »
- French UFO Files »
|
Sep 04 2007 
September 7th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
well, i applaud this….and would like to mention the ’so called solved’ sightings/events of BB,
which are filled with like scenarios as ” All of the witnesses (including trained military observers)
were informed that they had been fooled by an air-to-air refueling operation.”
for cryin’ out loud, bring these witnesses out of the closets, let’s see how many ‘toothless hillbillies’ there really are among ‘em!
U guys are a breath of fresh air,thanks!
As far as i’m concerned u should be posting
these at youtube - to the delight of ‘the sages’ everywhere!
(-: m
September 9th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
this is a bit off topic, but have you followed the news of the
Giant Spiders’ Web in Texas?
It’s mighty interesting to note how ‘the experts’ responded.
The ‘event’ is truly astounding, not just the size, but the fact that
‘orb weavers’ don’t make webs like this….
http://www.star-telegram.com/629/story/217700.html
there’s a few ‘reports’ and video now
m
September 10th, 2007 at 7:17 am
M:
Many thanks for the comments re the “Archives” post.
Re the spider webs: yeah I have followed this, as it’s only about a 2 hour drive at most from where I live, so I’ve been planning to try and get out there when I have a bit of free time and see it for myself.
I watched it on the local news a week or so ago and it looked amazing.